http://www.thepickards.co.uk standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist Mon, 12 May 2008 23:44:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was on the Team Valley 'Retail World' retail park the other day, sitting in a coffee shop tucked away in Borders bookshop. I'm presuming it was a Starbucks as they are pretty much ubiquitous but it could theoretically have been 'Costa Coffee' or something similar. Not that this is ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/interest-free/ I might have mentioned before that my four year old, BTP, is something of a Dr. Who nut. And I don't just mean new Dr. Who (I'm no longer sure whether his favourite Doctor is David Tennant, Tom Baker or Patrick Troughton...) I told him that I'd buy him a treat ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/patrick-troughton-a-warning/ I just thought I'd share with you some tales of my sporting prowess. Remember me mentioning the inter-departmental five a side team? Well, just look at the trophy I got presented with! I was presented with this trophy for "services to goalkeeping", and also picked up another medal. Not bad, eh? The exact ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/up-for-the-cup/ Well. Today was my last day at work with my old employers. It was a bit odd today, as at least half the department weren't in today anyway, but it's been a weird sort of week anyway. After all, you don't work somewhere for nine and a half years without developing ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/so-long/ Last week, to mark the 30th anniversary of the very first spam message (sent over ARPANET, the precursor to today's internet), Sophos have put forward a spam pledge. If everyone followed this pledge, there would be no financial benefit to anyone sending spam and so we'd get an awful lot ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/repeat-after-me/ I've been sorting stuff out. As I've mentioned before, I'm changing jobs next week and so I've had to prepare to take home all the personal crap I've accumulated in nine and a half years with one employer -- which appears to consist of a family photo, about nine and a ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/of-studies-and-seps/ Earlier on in the season, I mentioned Gateshead FC: I could get used to this, in reference to the fact that my local non-league club had won their first seven games of the season, and were flying towards promotion from the Unibond Premier League to the Blue Square North. (For those ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200805/chasing-promotion/ I believe I may have mentioned before (Knock the F***er down) that I didn't like Owen Luder's Brutalist car park in Gateshead's town centre. Nevertheless, I was intrigued to see the other week that Gateshead Council were offering one Last Chance to Get Carter -- or rather, a last chance to ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200804/getting-carter-one-last-time/ I bought a new phone. Owing to the fact that my new job won't involve working in the same office as my wife and the friends I tend to go drinking with, I had a sneaking suspicion that I was likely to be spending more on telephone calls. So I decided ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200804/geeks-and-gadgets/ A phrase you might have come across, if you've looked into disability issues at all, particularly as they relate to the web, or you've looked at the topic of web accessibility is people who are sometimes termed internet disabled. Now this isn't an official term (at least, so far as I ... http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200804/being-internet-disabled/